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TABLET LAB AT THE MUSEUMDigital education for teens
BERGAMO AFRICAN MUSEUM AND VILLAGE (Italy) 1 st Report Sept 2014 – Apr 2016
museoafricano.it guidamuseo.it
Flavio Pessina
Marcello Cenati
Digital Education – ASSUMPTIONS
• African curators scholars often disagree with the functions and identities of museum pieces
• Every museum must enhance the viewers comprehension
With digitalisation and the advance of mobile devices, can a museum host visitors’ experiences and perceptions?
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Digital Education – THE PROJECTTHE MUSEUM’S GOAL
1. A new pedagogy through digitalisation
2. Repetition of the model at school
3. Low investment and running cost
4. No particular Application set
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Digital Education – THE PROJECTBENEFITS TO VISITORS1. Allow them to discuss and share
their experiences and opinions
2. Promote cooperation
3. Support their personal production
of digital posts
4. Allow for discussion and reflection of
their experience after visit
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Students work
- telling stories - making suppositions- sharing their findings- learning of different customs
through exploration and use of their digital skills
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Digital Education – THE PROJECT
Digital Education – SETTING
BERGAMO AFRICAN MUSEUM AND VILLAGE (Italy) 1 st Report Sept 2014 – Apr 2016
1. 1 IWB for plenary sessions2. 20MB wifi network3. Kidoz software to limit and
control the available apps4. Nearpod software to share the
intro and the final presentation5. Google + a/o Google Keep
to collect posts on the IWB
Digital Education – TOOLS
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16 Android Tablet with:
Camera Google Keep and Google + Google Images Research Online museum guide blog Short list of surfable websites Museum Youtube channel Qr Reader and Answergarden
Digital Education – CONTENTS 1/2TOPICS FOR K6-8 STUDENTS
- ART AND VALUES:
- ART AND POWER
- PERCEPTIONS AND REALITIES
- MALE AND FEMALE
DURATION: 60’-75’ PER WORKHSOP
STUDENTS: 20-45 PER SESSIONS
Mediterranean Europe and west Africa in the XIX century
Compare differences between opinions of curators and those of studentsGender education in Europe and south of the Sahara: values and duties
Today’s teens values in Africa and Europe face to past’s virtues expressed by the operas
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Digital Education – CONTENTS 2/2TOPICS FOR K6-8 STUDENTS
- SYMBOLS
- NOTIONS
DURATION: 60’-75’ PER WORKHSOP
STUDENTS: 20-45 PER SESSIONS
Misunderstandings of signs in the works of art are similar to misapprehension of body gestures among different people
Comparison between our icons illustrating universal values and the african artists representations in their works of art
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Digital Education – AN EXAMPLE 1/2
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Digital Education – AN EXAMPLE 2/2
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Digital Education – THE WORKSHOPS
COMMON FEATURES
• Students always work in couples or threes
• They always start from their own experience,
• We encourage their creative production
• No App at all, the museum staff must define tools and paths every time!
• Every workshop with different slides for the beginning and final plenary session
• Each virtual board can be mailed at school, to go on discussing and working on
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Digital Education - DATASClasses StudentsTeachers Workshops
72
1.519
149
50
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Digital Education - RESULTS
Easy
Interesting
Funny
Helpful
Cooperative style
1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0
4.0
4.1
3.7
3.6
4.5
OPINIONS ABOUT THE TABLAB
BERGAMO AFRICAN MUSEUM AND VILLAGE (Italy) 1 st Report Sept 2014 - Apr 2016
Teachers evaluations at the end of each session. Answers rate: 72/149 = 48%
31%
25%19%
6%6%
13%
TEACHERS APPRECIATIONS
Starting from experi-encies
Works examination
Multimedia info quest
Activity partly un-structured
Final plenary session debriefing
Art and everyday life links
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Digital Education - RESULTS
Teachers evaluations at the end of each session. Answers rate: 72/148 = 48%
Digital Education - RESULTS
42%
5%9%
44%
OPINIONS ABOUT THE APPROACH
InterestingLaboriousCompellingExcitingFrustratingFascinating
Teachers evaluations at the end of each session. Answers rate: 72/148= 48%
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Digital Education – FINDINGS
- Hey Dad, they give us tablets!
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- High tech is cool,
but listening is still important - Students tell at a glance icons- Tweet seems to be the model
- The ideal man or woman are
mostly star media system
Digital Education – QUESTIONS 1/2
Cooperation or competition? Students are often struck by the lack of competition
they find hard to divide a task one another
Viewing, seeing, looking at: how about the other senses?
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They are much more interested in looking at their fellows’results
rather than listening to some reflections about their posts
Digital Education – QUESTIONS 2/2
Personal tools?Someone has difficulty drawing
a picture or posting a note in
cooperation with a school fellow
Assimilation?Foreigners previous experiences
and their customs hardly ever
appear in their posts
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